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Hungary’s incoming leader aims to tackle corruption,
the previous administration’s influence,
and dependence on Russia.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/15/hungary-peter-magyar-tisza-fidesz-orban-election-sulyok…

All that stuff in the previous post is what makes an arrest an •arrest•. ICE isn’t conducting arrests. They’re conducting abductions.

YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/912898/youtube-shorts-feed-limit-zero…

YouTube adds over 100 full episodes from previous seasons of Sesame Street and also hosts an expanded library of Sesame Street content on Shorts (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-sesame-street-full-episo…

I haven’t flunked Valentine’s Day since 1996. I flunked the previous 14.
It is my first wife’s birthday. I failed to read some signals…

Perceived inequality is a breeding ground for populism, say researchers
#politics

After spending 25 hours in Promise Mascot Agency doing absolutely everything there is to do apart from time trials, I had a real hankering to play more Yakuza, but it sounds like Kiwami 3 needs a patch or two. Instead, I started the PMA developer’s previous game Paradise Killer, because it was already given away on Epic. There was a hint of cosmic horror here and there in PMA, but it sure is all over the place in Paradise Killer - and it is extremely weird in its own way as well. Good time s…

#SoundSpace: What and where through sound https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772363.3798944 CHI EA '26

RE: https://mastodon.social/@atpfm/116081393775239489
This episode is too early!
I still have 5:26 from the previous one.

Sources: Google is negotiating a deal with the US DOD that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing its previous stance (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Trader Jerry Jones might be a thing with Cowboys holding a pair of 1st-round picks in NFL draft https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/trader-jerry-jones-might-be-a-thing-with-cowboys-holding-a-pair-of-1stround-p…

Tech billionaires are leveraging tens of millions of dollars
to influence California politics
in a marked uptick from their previous participation in affairs at the state capitol.
Behemoths such as #Google and #Meta are getting involved in campaigns for November’s elections,
as are venture capitalist…

Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty Gets Honest About Chip Kelly Controversy https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ashton-jeanty-stance-chip-kelly/

from my link log —
The many flavours of ignore files.
https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/12/the-many-flavors-of-ignore-files.html
saved 2026-02-13

buildcache lua plugins are a superpower. i keep finding ad-hoc ways to use them. I’ve probably saved at least a day’s worth of build time with each plugin i wrote
https://blog.farre.se/posts/2026/04/10/caching-webidl-codegen/

YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/912898/youtube-shorts-feed-limit-zero…

the lavender stink bombs of previous eras

Anthropic says Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that "improves how the model processes text", but "the tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens" (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/16/anthrop

We issued an RFP for the same hardware that we ordered in September 2025. The quoted price is 3.5 times higher than the previous price for the exact same hardware. In addition, the offer validity is now limited to only three days.
#memory #aibubble

Gonna tell everyone I know that I “played” the “Big Game” this evening /s
Got a new #Returnal #PS5 Tower of Sisyphus high score of 108,558,847 — Phase 12, Room 12, Rank 226 of 9940.
That’s over 11 million higher than my previous high score!

good grief, gnuplot is always a huge battle
here's a graph of the length of day (green, microseconds)
and UT1-UTC (purple, milliseconds)
from 1973 until today
the LoD is the difference from 24h, averaged over the previous 12 months - the LoD is _very_ noisy so it's hard to see the trends from a shorter averaging period
UT1-UTC is the integral of the LoD, with leap seconds to keep it in bounds
things have been a bit weird since 2020 because the LoD …

Administrative Court @… just dealt the final blow to previous Dutch governments' useless, expensive and damaging plans to spend €1.5 billion on a few extra lanes for a highway A27 stretch through Utrecht's Amelisweerd park!
Reason: insufficient nitrogen emissions compensation.

And all 32 #AmazonLeo satellites have been deployed by the first #Ariane 64: good news for Arianespace and Amazon but probably bad news for astronomy as the previous satellites of this #megaconstellation have proven to be brighter than they should be. As this diagram from the recent paper "Brightness Characterization and Modeling for Amazon Leo Satellites" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07708 - shows they are almost always brighter than the informally established 7 mag. limit. And there are no indications that the design of the 32 added to the constellation today had been modified to make them dimmer ... while the next Ariane launch will carry more of them.

What happens if you offer generous subsidies💰 for Carbon Capture and Storage💨 - but you demand that projects deliver on time⏰?
In recent years, Denmark🇩🇰 has started a fast rollout of CCS technology. Unlike previous attempts, which were met with substantial resistance, this one happened without much opposition. A wide range of political parties supported the plans. 🧵

"A National Audit Office investigation revealed in October last year that a staggering 98% of external insulation fitted under the previous government’s home-improvement schemes was installed so ineptly that it will have to be repaired or replaced."
Surprise, surprise.
Britain's building industry is unbelievably shoddy.

Interesting observation from today (a beautiful, cloudless day): We got *less* solar power than a few days ago, when it was partly cloudy. Significantly less, by almost a factor of two vs the previous peak (and closer to what we got on fairly rainy days).
My working hypothesis at this point: the sun is low in the sky because it's winter, and spends a significant fraction of its time partly occluded by trees.
On a cloudy day, shading isn't really a thing because you have t…

Trump’s toxic, racist video surpasses previous levels of debasement | Donald Trump | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/trump-obama-video-racist

It is day 12 of waiting for an #iOS App Store review of an update (the app is already live; they approved our previous version). Not a single bit of feedback in those 12 days.
Did they replace their review staff with poorly-functioning LLMs like the rest of Big Tech?
Seriously, though, is this abnormally-long delay happening to everyone right now?

Ballot Box Scotland Poll Analysis: IPSOS,
"a big dip for Labour. They’ve lost a chunk of their vote against what had been a relatively positive figure by recent standards in the previous poll. Although it amounts to a statistical four way tie for second place, on the headline figures Labour end up in fourth, behind Reform and the Greens in joint second."
…

"...solar panels and wind turbines were being installed across the peninsula. These were presented as ecological alternatives and came with this narrative that if we accepted them we were saving the planet.
... on the one hand there was this environmental discourse, and on the other hand they were dispossessing us of our territory and deforesting it. How can a project be environmentally friendly if it’s clearing a huge area of land?"
Resisting the so-called 'Maya'…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@1kmadleenfr/116370409979639054
The bravery of these courageous people given the barbaric Israelis have abused, beaten, and raped activists on previous flotillas after illegally detaining them.

FAA shuts down airspace in Texas near previous abrupt closure (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/faa-shuts-down-airspace-in-texas-near-previous-abrupt-closure-00803186
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p3#a260227p3

Just a random reminder that #Qt is not a good choice. Qt is an #OpenSource spew of a malicious company whose business model is based on constant API churn, and selling proprietary security support to people who can't keep up and are stuck on old versions.
Many volunteers (including #Gentoo developers) are spending hours keeping the previous Qt version alive, so people can continue using software that hasn't been ported to the next version yet, and helping with porting. Dozens of useful programs are dying along with old Qt versions.
#FreeSoftware

Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows daily traffic down ~20% since March 5 vs. the previous month (Anastasia Stognei/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f9584377-f63f-48c1-ac16-f46450d8c783

What are Out-of-band Application Security Testing (OAST) domains? Out-of-band application security testing (OAST) is a method for finding exploitable vulnerabilities in a web application by forcing a target to call back to a piece of infrastructure controlled by the tester. OAST domains (sub-domains most often) are often free and hosted by OAST tool providers like interact.sh. What happens when something is free on the Internet? It gets abused.
Let’s make tOAST of the most commonly ab…

"According to the 2025 Eurobarometer on food safety, ‘antibiotic, steroid or hormone residues in meat’ is one of the top food safety concerns for over one-third (36%) of EU citizens, albeit 3 percent points less than in the previous survey in 2022."
Veterinary drug residues in food: what’s the latest in the EU?

View from my living room window at two different times this late afternoon respectively evening.
#Sunset #Sonnenuntergang #Zürich

summer is on its way, I can hear it in the soil. the first of my tulips are already peeking their heads out of the ground.
#bloomScrolling #photography #red

Tomb Raider: completed!
The final levels, which I understand are set in Atlantis but in fact are set in some creepy pyramid on an island which appears to be constructed from living flesh, were a step up in difficulty from the previous ones. The biggest change came from the enemies, who were more aggressive, more in number, and required more bullets to dispatch. I moved away from using my standard pistols, to a combination of the Uzis and the Magnums - the shotgun…

Started my rewatch of Resident Evil: Apocalypse today (I'm rewatching all the Resident Evil flicks and the Netflix show in chronological order) and got about halfway through. Apocalypse is super 2004- super early 2000s. The effects, the acting, all of it. Jill Valentine has the look, of course, but they made her so ridiculous, so over the top. And she's always smoking? 😂🤣

Over one million households in the Netherlands now have a dynamic energy contract, marking a 30% increase over the past 12 months. This represents a 7% market share.
https://

Rams' Davante Adams aims for first Super Bowl after losing previous four NFC title games: 'We just got to finish it off' https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-davante-adams-aims-for-first-super-…

"Wind and solar are booming in China. So why is it building so many new coal plants?"
#China #WindTurbines #SolarPower

If you’re about to submit a paper to an established (!) conference, please not only read the call for papers—yes, READ it—but have a look at previous proceedings. Please!
“But I spent so much time writing this” doesn’t make a paper fit the scope
#AcademicChatter

Yeah, I could not ignore this: The #LEGO #BTTF #DeLorean time machine, The Speed Champions edition. I like this version better than the previous iteration which seemed far too blocky (Yes, the pun i…

Something I hadn't previously appreciated is that not only can acts of the UK parliament amend the text of previous acts, they can also amend the *names* of previous acts.

Another one is to not make snarky jokes as a reply unless you know the person from previous interactions, maybe only if you’re mutuals.

What happens if you offer generous subsidies💰 for Carbon Capture and Storage💨 - but you demand that projects deliver on time⏰?
In recent years, Denmark🇩🇰 has started a fast rollout of CCS technology. Unlike previous attempts, which were met with substantial resistance, this one happened without much opposition. A wide range of political parties supported the plans. 🧵

I have a Roblox account because my son plays and that's the only way to mange the parental controls. I tried to change my email address and I don't have the option. I contacted support and they were supremely unhelpful. Basically suggesting I have my son enroll a new parent (which apparently he can do with out my say so). When I pushed back, this is all they send in response to my messages. This is the third time I've received the identical message.

every previous human excursion to the moon scaled to handle a maximum of three concurrent human requests and the artemis II sent four

🎩 A background historian compresses older conversation parts into structured summaries while the main agent keeps working — no pause, no interruption. The agent never summarizes its own history.
💾 Cross-session memory: architecture decisions, naming conventions & user preferences survive session restarts. New conversations start with everything the previous session learned.

Stolen to add #AltText. https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116365622761636502

I'm with the auditors on this one! Companies deploying AI need more expert human auditing, not less, at least until fundamental flaws in 'AI' are addressed and it's reliably accurate
'KPMG gets money off its own audit by arguing AI makes accounting cheaper'

RE: https://girlcock.club/@miss_rodent/116041738842160668
This is a different, crisper way of saying what I meant by the previous post: if it sounds like a medical textbook, you’re more likely get a diagnosis; if it sounds like a tweet, you’re more likely to get a shitpost
The tone, vocabulary, and style of the question change the likelihood that the answer is correct.
4/

"Es ist eine einzigartige, wenn auch höchst zweifelhafte Auszeichnung für Donald Trumps scharfen Beitrag zum politischen Diskurs, dass er die Fähigkeit der englischen Sprache, Empörung auszudrücken, im Wesentlichen ruiniert hat."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

No high fructose corn syrup.
Just regular corn syrup plus a bit of extra sucrose. Gotta love sketchy marketing.
(A previous formulation had the first two ingredients corn syrup and fructose... I wonder if they got sued or something and changed it to spike with sucrose instead?)

“The barrier to creating software has genuinely dropped. That is not hype. What it means for professional engineers is not that their skills are less valuable, but that the skills that matter have shifted up the stack, as they have in every previous transition.
The developers who thrived after the move from assembly to C were not the ones who could write the most clever assembly. They were the ones who understood what the machine needed to do and could express that intent clearly in a higher-level language. The developers who thrived after the move to managed languages and frameworks were not the ones most resistant to garbage collection. They were the ones who saw the freed-up cognitive capacity as an opportunity to solve harder problems.
The developers who will thrive in the agentic era are the ones who understand this as another step in the same arc and invest accordingly. Not in resisting the tools. Not in deferring to them uncritically. In developing the judgment, clarity, and systems thinking that make the tools maximally effective.
That means writing better specs. Investing in test infrastructure. Developing genuine architectural understanding rather than surface familiarity. Building the taste to evaluate output rigorously. Practicing problem decomposition until it becomes second nature.
The era of programming as primarily a keystroke activity is over. The era of programming as primarily a thinking and judgment activity has been accelerating for decades and just shifted into a higher gear.”
#AITransition
#
https://addyosmani.com/blog/factory-model/

Why the Raiders Hope Next HC Hire Erases Previous Memories https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-hope-next-hc-hire-erases-previous-memories

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledges meetings with Epstein that contradict previous claims (Stephen Groves/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-files-howard-lutnick-2ead9f281ba2491e0581aced50a0533d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p92#a260210p92

Bergrücken
(From the same October morning as the previous image...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

French prosecutors have raided the Paris office of Elon Musk-owned platform X, several media outlets report.

"France opened an investigation last month following the proliferation of sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok on X, following up on a previous probe into the chatbot's antisemitic outbursts over the summer."

Elon Musk former CEO Linda Yaccarino have also been summoned for questioning on April 20.

I am very on board for this. 🍿

<…

> I am watching ICE agents shoot a nurse in Minneapolis, and half the country believes the verified video of his previous encounter with federal agents is a deepfake. I am watching the infrastructure of verification get systematically dismantled by an administration that understands, perhaps better than anyone, that ambiguity is power. I am watching the epistemic commons burn while we argue about whether the fire is real....

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

#photography #bloomScrolling #noFilter #orange

The UK is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years | AP News https://apnews.com/article/uk-house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-expelled-535df8781dd01e8970acda1dca99d3d4

Dak Prescott Taking Earlier, More Aggressive Approach This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dak-prescott-taking-earlier-more-aggressive-approach-this-offseason

Disproportionate homelessness among people with disabilities is not an accident.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:x7xmggpwlgtotuxi5as5igwy/post/3megtipzkd22i

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Last year, 40% of cars manufactured in Germany had an electric drivetrain, which is a 23% increase on the previous year.
Of those, 73% were battery-electric cars, totalling 1.22 million.
https://www.vda.de/de/presse/Pressemeldung

GWTC-4.0 - an Introduction to Version 4.0 of the #GravitationalWave Transient Catalog: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0c06 -> The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes: https://physics.mit.edu/news/new-catalog-more-than-doubles-the-number-of-gravitational-wave-detections-made-by-ligo-virgo-and-kagra-observatories/ / New catalog of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observations published: https://www.aei.mpg.de/1415736/new-catalog-of-ligo-virgo-kagra-observations-published - the latest catalog, GWTC-4, includes 128 new candidates from the fourth observing run, more than doubling the previous total.

State Department will delete all its tweets sent prior to second Trump presidency.
In many ways this is bad, but it's also understandable - there's a balance between continuity and demonstrating change when administrations change. In many ways it's a failure of X to not provide a labelling system to automatically mark posts as being from a previous administration and not necessarily reflecting policy.

Falcons GM Ian Cunningham on having just 5 draft picks: 'That’s the hand that we were dealt' https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-gm-ian-cunningham-on-having-just-5-draft-picks-that-s-the-hand-that-we-were-dealt

Bizarrely warm end of the winter, here in the Netherlands: average temperature in the last part of February (21-28/29) was more than a full degree higher than the previous record set just five years ago:
10.5°C, that's warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for April!
Peak was above 17°C.

Democrats watched with mouths agape this week as Latino voters,
many of whom have sat out previous primary seasons,
turned out in droves for James Talarico in Texas.
But the push to win back the elusive and swingy coalition that proved pivotal to Donald Trump’s 2024 victory goes way beyond the closely watched Lone Star State.
This is a story that kicked off last year as Democrats overperformed in Latino-dominant districts across Virginia and New Jersey.
It’s o…

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

from my link log —
Pointer-based data structures in SPARK Ada.
https://blog.adacore.com/pointer-based-data-structures-in-spark
saved 2019-10-12

Source: Paramount is expected to come back with a WBD offer above its previous $30 per share bid, seeking to outflank Netflix; Paramount has a Monday deadline (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-d…

Raiders awarded two compensatory picks for 2026 NFL Draft https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-awarded-two-compensatory-picks-for-2026-nfl-draft-free-agency

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras could raise ~$2B in its IPO as soon as April; it withdrew its previous IPO registration in October, nearly a year after filing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/ai-c…

So, I have an answer to my previous question about GPU transfer efficiency.
Original code: write data to staging buffer on CPU, vkCopyBuffer to GPU local memory, run int-float32 conversion on GPU out of that buffer. The copy operation shows 50% SM occupancy by compute warps, 50% unallocated warp slots in active SMs.
GPU memory write bandwidth is sitting around 2%, about 1.9 ms copy/shader run time.

#photography #bloomScrolling #hippeastrum

Amy Klobuchar,
the Democratic US senator and one-time presidential candidate,
announced she will run for
governor of Minnesota,
an expected move after the incumbent governor, Tim Walz, dropped out of the race in early January
Border chief to speak in Minnesota; videos emerge of previous confrontation between Alex Pretti and federal officers – live

The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget for 2027 by $707M to help the agency refocus on its "core mission", not "weaponization and waste" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/cisa-bud…

47 kWh generation today, another new record by a significant margin (previous was 36.3 on the 27th).
Max array output around 8.3 kW with a 15-minute averaging window.
Monthly total consumption (not counting the last few hours of today) 5 MWh, 730 kWh production - about 15% of my consumption which is pretty decent given how much juice I use.
YTD consumption is 11.4 MWh with 1.3 of production, meeting 11% of my demand.
Consumption should go down slightly in the warmer w…

Raiders awarded two compensatory picks for 2026 NFL Draft https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-awarded-two-compensatory-picks-for-2026-nfl-draft-free-agency

Two key things prompted previous U.S, presidents to opt for diplomacy over war with Iran:
the bloody violence certain to follow
and the stranglehold Iran has on the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps spent decades developing weapons and military capabilities aimed at halting commercial traffic in the strait in the time of crisis.
U.S. and Israeli warplanes have decimated Tehran’s ability to mass-produce weapons and menace neighbors’ capitals…

Democratic state attorneys general sue Trump over tariffs

The lawsuit accuses the president of trying to “sidestep” a Supreme Court ruling that overturned many of his previous levies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/05/tariffs-lawsuit-democr…

OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and "has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/

Mexico names new foreign secretary
Mexico’s president on Wednesday designated
Roberto Velasco,
the foreign ministry’s subsecretary for North America and a leading expert in bilateral relations with the U.S.,
as the country’s new foreign secretary during a critical time for Mexico-U.S. relations.
The previous minister, Juan Ramón de la Fuente,
a 74-year-old psychiatrist who has been a key member of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration, re…

Donald Trump says he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction.
Trump’s announcement on social media Sunday night follows a wave of cancellations since Trump ousted the previous leadership and added his name to the building.
The proposal, he said, is subject to approval by the board of the Kennedy Center, which has been stocked with his hand-picked allies.
Leading performing arts groups have pulled ou…